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Big Railroad Blues, Playin' In The Band, Mr. Charlie, Cumberland Blues, Sugaree, Promised Land, Big Boss Man, China Cat Sunflower-> I Know You Rider, Me And Bobby McGee, Casey Jones Truckin'-> Drums-> The Other One-> Me & My Uncle-> The Other One-> Wharf Rat, Turn On Your Love Light, E:Johnny B. Goode-> E: We Bid You Good Night

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Reviewer: chris phillips - - May 23, 2013
Subject: GD
Full praises for the spirit Jerry brought to the table in 1971. Phil provided awesome accompaniment similarly.
There was a Truckin'>The Other One the night before, just to clarify. I prefer this one, but for 1971 The Other One's from November are best.
This could be the best Cumberland from '71. The one from 9/27/72 is amazing too.
Thanks for sharing.

Reviewer: NYLifer - - August 15, 2012
Subject: White Rabbit !
Just before the 7:00 minute mark at the end of Sugaree, the band plays White Rabbit and then talks to someone in the crowd about it!

Reviewer: ah_uh_oh_um - - August 16, 2009
Subject: The GRATEFUL DEAD "Live On Stage" August 15, 1971, at the Berkeley Community Theater, Berkeley, California, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
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Get both shows August 14-15, 1971. I think the 14th is a better show.

http://www.archive.org/details/gd71-08-14.sbd.ladner.21268.sbeok.shnf

I highly recommend adding this show to your 1971 GRATEFUL DEAD collection.

1971 was the "Best Year" in GRATEFUL DEAD music in my opinion...Classic 1971 sound. The sound that made them famous/infamous...

This show does have Truckin-->Drums-->Other One-->Me & My Uncle-->Other One-->Wharf Rat, & Turn On Your Lovelight, which the other show doesn't.

I recommend using your EQ during playback of most of the shows on the IA, this one included.

Windows Media Player has a 10 band EQ and SRS WOW effects that enhance the sound.

Here's one way to stream/dowload this show:

The IA recommends users of Windows XP view this web-page with RealPlayer.

RealPlayer is a free media player you can download at www.realplayer.com.

Using RealPlayer to view this webpage, click the VBR M3U link to open the songs in the Playlist.

If your Playlist is not open, open it by clicking the Playlist icon at the lower right hand corner of RealPlayer.

Once the songs are in the Playlist, double click the song to play it, then click the record button at the lower left hand corner of Realplayer to record it.

When the red line reaches the other end click the stop button to download the song. Your song is in the RealPlayer Downloads folder.

Repeat these steps for each song.

OR

Hook up audio cables (1/8th inch stereo male jack with two rca male jacks at the other end) from your headphone jack on your computer to your audio input on your Reel to Reel, Cassette,VHS, CD, DVD, MP3, recorder and record it in real time...duh?

Eat, Drink, Be Merry and Listen to the GRATEFUL DEAD, for tomorrow we may die....

Thanks for the LOVE from 1971.

PS: Remember to click on the "DeadLists Project" link and get the "Poster" for this show.

Reviewer: cHE13 - - December 18, 2008
Subject: Les Paul
I'm sorry George Minton but as a guitarist who owns two les pauls and 4 or 5 strats I can tell you that Jerry is indeed playing a Les Paul here and on the previous night. There are also pictures of him playing a sunburst les paul on dead.net and on that Jerry's guitar's website. Listen to that Gaelic park show from a couple of weeks later and you will be able to hear the classic sound of a Stratocaster. It is Les Paul here though. I actually searched these shows out after seeing the pictures in order to hear his Les Paul sound.

Reviewer: oh_uh_um_ah - - April 6, 2008
Subject: THE GRATEFUL DEAD RHYTHM SECTION
This show is a great example of how less is more.

Great sounding rhythm section. Two guitars, Bass, Drums and Pigpen on the organ.

THE DEAD would never sound like this again.

A truely special treat here at the IA.

Excellent sound from the audio board , excellent mix, and masterful performances make this show one you will listen to over an over.

The soundman has some problems from time to time, but hey it's 1971 and these guys were still using freaking tube amps,and who knows what other ancient technologies long forgotten by the modern computer age.

Eat, Drink, Be Merry, and listen to THE GRATEFUL DEAD.

Thanks for the Love.

Reviewer: George Minton - - December 21, 2005
Subject: Another great 5-man Dead show
Lots of fabulous moments, nice crisp sound, best Wharf Rat ever - a nice delicately detailed body followed by an explosive jam. Four and three quarter stars, rounded up to five.

Additionally, because I'm seriously type-A and a guitarist, Jerry is in fact playing a Fender Stratocaster; he had been since the fall of '69, with a few exceptions such as the encores of the last night at the Fillmore. The continued thinning of his guitar sound was largely due to the influence of the Alembic boys, giving him "hi-fi" pre-amps because they hated the "primitive" sound of a Strat through a Fender Twin. And, from guitar amps 101, "hi-fi" equals "clean" equals "thin", and conversely "primitive" equals "distorted" equals "thick."

Jerry's tone stayed thin for the rest of his career, even when most of his later custom guitars had humbucking (i.e., Gibson) pickups in one or more of the three positions.

Reviewer: redsoxfansince72 - - June 21, 2005
Subject: Soon to Be Released?
I got this in an email from dead.net today... The Vault masters of this show and the previous night were recently disovered and it sounds like they will be released sometime in the near future, so if you want this show for free, grab it while you can! (It sounds great, BTW!)

In the spring of 2005, Keith's brother Brian and son Zion were cleaning out the houseboat, found the tapes, and gave them to Donna, whose jaw dropped. One call to Lemieux later, and the Dead's long-lost missing tour from the summer of 1971 had resurfaced. Master tapes include April 28 and 29 at the Fillmore East (released as "Ladies and Gentlemen," which was mixed from the multi-track masters), the 7/31 Yale Bowl (alas, the reels were blank), a small piece of the second Hollywood Palladium show, the complete shows from Berkeley Community Theatre 8/14 & 8/15, and others. Dick's Pick #35 is the complete San Diego (8/7/71) show, all that was salvageable of the 8/24 Chicago show, and an hour-plus of the Hollywood Palladium (8/6), which is all that existed on the tapes.

Reviewer: Mark C. - - April 1, 2005
Subject: End of an era?
What an amazing find these shows are (8-14 & 15 -71)! Its hard to believe they somehow evaded me for so long.

Like many, Ive had the audience tapes of the Hollywood 8-5/6 shows, and considered their absence from the Vault a big loss. But we have these shows, which rest assured are of equal caliber. In fact, if these four shows were all available in similar sound quality for comparison, I strongly suspect that peoples opinion of the relative merits of the shows would change.

Yes, my two or three very favorite moments come from the Hollywood shows (specifically, moments in each of the Other Ones), but overall, if my back was against the wall and I had to pick one show, I would probably give the nod to 8/14.

The high points from all four of these shows are undoubtedly the Other One jams. It is no coincidence that the boys played it back-to-back in both runs. In 1971, the Other One was THE signature jam of the band. Though theyd been jamming on it for fully four years, I find these 71 ones to be my favorite. Portchester 2-23, Fillmore 4-28, Fillmore West 7-2, which David Gans once described as molten they are all momentous musical events in the Deads history. And the four from these runs belong center square in this group. Im particularly partial to 8-5 (I love those blood-curdling yells from the audience in all the right places!), and the Me & My Uncle segueway part in 8-6 but this is a review of Berkeley 8-14/15 I digress.

These August 71 shows also have musical historical significance. They represent the last shows with solid body Gibson guitars (Jerry and Phil). By the time of the Gaelic Park gig 8-26, Jerry had switched to a Strat and Phil was playing a hollow body. Two months prior to a further thinning out of the bands guitars due to Keith joining, this was the last time we would here those big, fat Gibson tones emanating from Jerrys amps. Its my opinion that Jerrys switching to a Stratas well as Keiths pianoaffected (adversely) Jerrys style in a feedback-loop sort of way. The thinner tones influenced Jerry to play with less vibrato and ballsiness, and play more scales. This was exacerbated by the addition of Keiths percussive piano playing later that year. Was the thinning of Jerrys sound evident at the Gaelic Park show just two weeks later? Im not sure. You be the judge.

Back to the shows. The sound quality is exceptional. There are some problems in the mix in places. Overall, Phils bass is out front in both channels. Now, Id be the first to admit that there are a lot worse things than having Phil too loud. On the two Other One jams we *really* get to hear Phils brilliance crystal clear.

Jerry in parts is a little too far back in the mix. But thats OK, too. The biggest problem is that Bobbys guitar appears and disappears in the mix. In fact, in the 8-14 Not Fade Away jam, it seems as if he disappears altogether! This is a *real* shame, because this is a longer than usual NFA jam, and Jerry and Phil are kickin ass. The absence of Weirs rhythmic glue is a real shame.

But that astride, and taken as a whole, these shows sounds GREAT! They belong in every serious Dead Heads collection. In fact I would say that the two shows belong in Dicks Picks. This is the real deal. The end of an era?

Reviewer: skwimite - - January 16, 2005
Subject: Better than 14th
This show was the first time I saw the Dead in person, so maybe I'm a bit partial to it, but I think it's great! Sound quality is fine and Lovelight really swings. I'm giving it 5 stars because this show needs a boost in the ratings.

Reviewer: dirty jev-o - - December 1, 2004
Subject: little quiet tape
band is kickin it---left channel is jerry and hiss------oh well---turn it down and it disappears a smidgen

Notes

d1t06 - there was originally a pretty sloppy splice at 01:56 with about 200 ms of redundant music, so it sounded like a "record skip". I cleaned it up to unbiased imperceptibility using SF6. Go ahead - listen for it. I dare you.
d2t07 - splices at 0:40 and 4:50 which i left as is. Also there is brief intermittent static 2:23 - 2:39. It was not particularly harsh nor easily amenable to removal so I left it. This source does not have the skips in d1t02 or d1t03 that are found in the other circulating source from this date.

Original SHN's were nonseekable and not named by convention. I renamed them, cleaned up the splice in The Promised Land, eliminated the resulting sector boundary error using SHNTOOL (and fixed one on the last track of d2), then re-encoded the files back into seekable SHN.
- C.Ladner